Common questions about Isabel Hospice Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Isabel Hospice Limited a good charity? +
Isabel Hospice Limited scores 71 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 58% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Isabel Hospice Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Isabel Hospice Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1046826). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1046826&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Isabel Hospice Limited's charity number? +
Isabel Hospice Limited's charity number is 1046826. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Isabel Hospice Limited's charity rating? +
Isabel Hospice Limited scores 71 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Isabel Hospice Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Isabel Hospice Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Isabel Hospice Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 58% of Isabel Hospice Limited's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Isabel Hospice Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 42% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 42% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Isabel Hospice Limited. Isabel Hospice Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Isabel Hospice Limited receive? +
Isabel Hospice Limited reported £10m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Isabel Hospice Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-14). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Isabel Hospice Limited based? +
Isabel Hospice Limited's registered contact address is in St Albans (AL7 1GD). It tells the regulator it operates in Hertfordshire, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Isabel Hospice Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Isabel Hospice Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Isabel Hospice Limited's money come from? +
Isabel Hospice Limited reported £10m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £3.9m (38%), donations and legacies £2.7m (26%), charitable activities £2.3m (22%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £934k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Isabel Hospice Limited? +
The register records Isabel Hospice Limited as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Isabel Hospice Limited's trustees paid? +
Isabel Hospice Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Isabel Hospice Limited registered as a charity? +
Isabel Hospice Limited was entered on the register on 30 May 1995. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03056823).
How does CharityCompare score Isabel Hospice Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Isabel Hospice Limited's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Isabel Hospice Limited's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.